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Beau Friedlander / The Huffington Post:
$100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tape — What's Your Reaction: — Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy. Breitbart offered $100,000 for JournoList, the email listserve that brought down WaPo blogger Dave Weigel this June.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
After Washington rally, Glenn Beck assails Obama's religion — Conservative commentator Glenn Beck voiced sharper criticism of President Obama's religious beliefs on Sunday than he and other speakers offered from the podium of the rally Beck organized at the Lincoln Memorial a day earlier.
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The Moderate Voice, TalkLeft, The League of Ordinary …, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, NewsBusters.org, Raw Story, Firedoglake, CNN and News Hounds
Mike Opelka / Big Journalism:
Just How Large Was the Attendance At Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally? — In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math …
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Cubachi, The Daily Caller, The Powers That Be and Right Wing News
Ross douthat / New York Times:
Mr. Beck Goes to Washington
Mr. Beck Goes to Washington
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite, First Draft, No More Mister Nice Blog and Think Progress
CNN:
My Take: Beck's rally was about restoring virtue and God's place
My Take: Beck's rally was about restoring virtue and God's place
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Right Wing Watch, Daily Kos and Townhall.com
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Beck Blasts Obama's ‘Perversion Of The Gospel,’ …
Beck Blasts Obama's ‘Perversion Of The Gospel,’ …
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Washington Monthly, EarnedMedia.org, CNN and Right Wing Watch
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
59 percent think Palin lacks ability to be effective as president — Almost three out of five Americans believe former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) would not be an effective president, a new poll found Monday. — Fifty-nine percent of U.S. adults said they don't think Palin …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Outside the Beltway, Think Progress, Red Dog Report, GOP 12 and The Page
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CNN:
More than 25,000 ballots uncounted in Alaska GOP Senate race — (CNN) - One day before vote counting resumes in Alaska's Republican Senate primary, election officials say more than 25,000 ballots remain uncounted. — According to unofficial results from last Tuesday's primary …
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Michael A. Memoli / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska should cut dependence on federal dollars, Miller says
Alaska should cut dependence on federal dollars, Miller says
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Witch-Hunt Season — The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress …
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Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, The Agonist, Alternate Brain, The Confluence, Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
In 2010, Obama's mantle less of an asset for Democrats — Two years can change just about everything in politics. — In the 2008 campaign, Democrats running for the Senate did anything - and everything - to associate themselves with then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Economy Puts Democrats' Senate Majority in Play: Albert R. Hunt
Economy Puts Democrats' Senate Majority in Play: Albert R. Hunt
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Commentary and Pajamas Media
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Secret showdown set for Islamic charity — One of the nation's most prominent Muslim organizations, the North American Islamic Trust, is set to face off with the U.S. government in a federal appeals court Monday. — The reputation of the group, known as NAIT, may well hang in the balance …
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Power Line and Law Blog
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Israel group targets Holt, J Street
The Numbers:
This I Believe — It's quickly mushroomed into the summer's hottest data point: A boatload of Americans believe Barack Obama's a Muslim. — Except that, maybe, they don't. Consider this instead: They're just willing to say it. — This not-so-subtle difference is useful in understanding public opinion and its measurement.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sen. Tom Coburn: Newt Gingrich 'last person I'd vote for' — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pouring cold water on the idea of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich running for president. — “He's the last person I'd vote for for president of the United States,” Coburn said during a town hall event in Wagoner …
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Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Coburn rips the left and right alike
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out — Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing. — The reason, says Time's managing editor, is that “we saw what was coming. We wanted to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”
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Salon, The Wire, New York Magazine and Romenesko, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Crist walks back same-sex marriage remarks — (CNN) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appeared to backtrack from statements he made regarding same-sex marriage during a CNN interview Sunday, saying in a statement that he does not support a Constitutional ban on the practice.
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Ballot Box
Robert Barro / Wall Street Journal:
The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment — My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks. — Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers.
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Modeled Behavior and The Future of Capitalism
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
John Bolton, Criticizer-in-Chief — Since assuming office, President Obama has garnered his fair share of high-profile critics. But few have been as omnipresent and implacable as John Bolton. From his near constant appearances on Fox News and HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher” …
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CNN, Ben Smith's Blog, The Political Carnival, GOP 12 and Weigel
Mark Helprin / Wall Street Journal:
The World Trade Center Mosque and the Constitution — The plan to erect a mosque of major proportions in what would have been the shadow of the World Trade Center involves not just the indisputable constitutional rights that sanction it, but, providentially, others that may frustrate it.
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Commentary and The Future of Capitalism
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Remainders: Beckfest — Time to catch up on some issues I would have blogged about last week had I not been on vacation. First up—the Glenn Beck Extravaganza. I've watched a fair amount of Beck over the past two years, and it's clear that the man is a charlatan.
Ezra Klein:
Charlie Crist: A puzzle wrapped in an enigma shrouded in mystery — In a bid to pick up Democratic votes without losing every last Republican vote, Charlie Crist is refusing to say who he'll caucus with if he's elected to the Senate in November. The fact that that's smart politics suggests …
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CQ Politics
Telegraph:
Iran calls Carla Bruni a ‘prostitute’ — Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French First Lady, has been called a “prostitute” by Iran after she criticised the country's decision to stone a woman to death. — Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president …
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The Jawa Report, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Jay Currie
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Inadequate Easing in Japan — One of the oddities of the current crisis is that throughout the 1990s it was absolutely conventional wisdom in the United States of America that Japan, though suffering from some real structural issues, was making things much worse for itself than necessary …
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New York Times and Washington Post
Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
Germany's rebound is no cause for cheer — One of the weirder experiences for anyone who lives in the eurozone is a visit to a German supermarket. I had the pleasure the other day, and found the general price level there to be a little over half of what it is in Belgium, Italy or Spain.
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naked capitalism and Paul Krugman
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Ron Paul questions whether there's gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said he plans to introduce legislation next year to force an audit of U.S. holdings of gold. — Paul, a longtime critic of the Federal Reserve and U.S. monetary policy, said he believes it's “a possibility” …
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